pyILPER 1.8.5 released

[jsi]

pyILPER 1.8.5 production has just been released on GitHub.

A new device type "virtual raw disk device" supports virtual disk drives for the HP-Portable Plus computer. See the pyILPER online manual for details.

Other changes and fixes are documented in the release page.

Note: In preparing the support of Python 3.9 I accidentally checked in a 1.8.4 development version instead of the 1.8.3 production version in the Anaconda channel. This 1.8.4 development version was probably installed by a number of pyILPER users. You find the pyILPER version number in the title of the main pyILPER window. This development version is almost a 1.8.3 version with a small fix for the virtual HP 7475 plotter. Therefore, there will be no 1.8.4 production version to allow everyone for a clean upgrade to 1.8.5.

Devopment/beta and production versions of pyILPER use a different set of configuration files. If you upgrade from a 1.8.4 development version, you can copy the configuration files from the development to the production version by running pyILPER with the -cc option once from the command line.

Regards,
Joachim